Nephi wrote that “there came many prophets, prophesying unto the people that they must repent, or the great city Jerusalem must be destroyed.” Amos taught that the Lord God would do nothing “but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets” (Amos 3:7). The Lord always gives sufficient warning; “never hath any of them been destroyed save it were foretold them by the prophets of the Lord” (2 Nephi 25:9). For such a dramatic and devastating destruction as was coming, the cast of prophets was indeed, as the Book of Mormon says, “many.” Lehi, Jeremiah, Huldah, Zephaniah, Habukkuk, Ezekiel, and one Urijah of Kirjath-jearim (Jeremiah 26:20) were all contemporaries.
“And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy” (2 Chronicles 36:15–16).